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- Location(s): Amalfi Coast, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 and 1970s
An eccentric aristocrat is savagely murdered in his Italian palazzo at the end of WW2. Twenty years later, this unsolved crime touches the life of Alba, a hedonistic girl who lives on a houseboat in Sixties Chelsea. Between these...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast, South East England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Three couples. One murder. A holiday to die for . . . We arrived at a villa on the Amalfi Coast, ready to enjoy a sun-soaked weekend with our oldest friends – and one new face. By the end...
- Location(s): Ischia, Italy
- Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1970s, modern
1979 and two young women become au pairs to two Italian families. They are in search of excitement and romance, but one of their charges goes missing they come under suspicion from the police. The cracks in their friendship...
The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
- Location(s): Capri, Newport (R I)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Years ago, Lyra Davis fled the people she loved most, unable to reconcile the expectations of her wealthy family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. Federí, the...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Evidence of a violent crime is found in the basement of an Italian palazzo. A missing American student appears to be the victim, two mysterious brothers the main suspects. The strangest thing: the murder seems to have been inspired...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2000s
“The Terracotta Dog” opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano gives to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When Tess Angel receives a solicitor’s letter inviting her to claim her inheritance – the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily – she is stunned. Her only link to the island is through her mother, Flavia, who...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Italy during the war, tantalising italian food, a beautiful novel, war is raging and Mussolini is in power….
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastary, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk...
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